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id: 2025-12-18T14:18:00-0500
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title: 2025-12-18 14:18:??
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tags:
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- topic/estimating
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daily: "[[2025-12-18]]"
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# 2025-12-18 14:18:??
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## Estimating Golf
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What interests me most in [[construction-estimating]]
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is an idea you might call [[estimating-golf|"estimating golf"]]:
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the goal is to produce a satisfactory[^1] estimate,
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but the estimator can not view the project documents
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and must instead ask questions about the job
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(answerable in a sentence or less)
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of a neutral party ("the reader").
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The estimator fails if the estimate is unsatisfactory[^1],
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but otherwise is scored by number of questions asked.
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[^1]: satisfactory in terms of accuracy and precision,
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according to the standards of the organization.
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a control estimate must be prepared accordingly
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by a neutral party ("the control").
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You could further imagine different brackets
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for required accuracy and precision,
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whether organization historicals are freely available
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or must be questioned like project details.
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The most interesting part of this problem is choosing when to stop,
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since it requires one to estimate their certainty of their estimate.
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